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Haggai is a senior associate in our Dispute Resolution team and is based in the Nairobi Office. He advises and represents clients on employment and labour relations disputes, constitutional law disputes, commercial and corporate disputes, intellectual property disputes, international and local arbitration, data privacy and general civil litigation in Kenya.
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+254 111 050 232 +254 182 193 846 haggai.okeyo@clydeco.comMain Office
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Full Profile
Haggai is a senior associate in Clyde & Co’s Dispute Resolution team and is based in the Nairobi Office.
He advises and represents clients on employment and labour relations disputes, constitutional law disputes, commercial and corporate disputes, intellectual property disputes, international and local arbitration, data privacy and general civil litigation in Kenya.
Haggai has advised on a wide range of disputes, working with clients operating in the aviation, energy, financial services, real estate, retail trade and commodities, technology, and transport sectors.
Haggai is a licensed lawyer in Kenya and is admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He graduated with a Master of Laws degree (LLM) from the University of South Wales, UK in 2022, and a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from the University of Nairobi, Kenya in 2016. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Haggai was a senior associate at MMAN Advocates and prior to that, a senior associate at J.M. Njenga & Co. Advocates. Haggai is fluent in English and Swahili.
Experience
- Acting for an international bank based in West Africa on enforcing a €6 million arbitration award issued in Ivory Coast by the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) before the Kenyan courts.
- Acting for a well-known pension scheme in a constitutional petition to protect its investments and interest valued at over KES 52 billion (USD 445 million) regarding an attempt by the National Government to have it wound up and merged into another pension scheme.
- Successfully defending a Kenyan state corporation responsible for the management of airports in a claim for clearing and forwarding services rendered on behalf of the authority where the plaintiff claimed sums in excess of KES 500 million (USD 4 million) for services that had been paid for.
- Acting for leading Banks and Insurance companies in various employment and Labour Relations Cases.
- Acting for biopesticides company in a debt recovery claim against a large multinational agricultural company.
- Acting for British Nationals in having an Interpol Red Notice issued irregularly against them in Kenya through Warrants of Arrested Lifted.
- Advising a client on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crimes Compliance, including the development of internal compliance frameworks and risk mitigation strategies.
- Advising a client on data privacy and protection compliance, including alignment with Kenya’s Data Protection Act and international best practices.
- Acting for an international Logistics Company in a warehousing dispute against an international Clothes and Apparel Company where we managed to get a judgment under the doctrine of Promissory Estoppel for the funds that were incurred by the logistics company before the contract was entered into.